Title

1/4 Shekel Coin

Description

Obv: Three hoplites in a galley on a stream line. In the exergue a hippocampus.
Rev: Phoenician characters along top reading "Elpa'al, king of Gebal". Below is a lion attacking a bull.

Date Issued

425-333 BCE

Format

Weight: 3.52 g

Medium

Silver

Creator

Byblos (modern Jbeil, Lebanon)

Publisher

Bibliothèque Nationalede France, Paris , France

Identifier

ark:/12148/btv1b85359817

Source

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b85359817

Contributor

Theo Bowden